Quotes About Persistence

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.

I don't believe in luck. There are things that you have to work hard for.

I was raised to farm work.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.